2007-08-26

cloak

It is unfinished, slow, buggy, unmaintained, in need of a rewrite -- and now you can hack it yourself!

Doesn't that sound exciting? Of course it does.

Prerequisites. Only Linux/x86 is supported1. You will need several hours of spare CPU time, about 1 GB of RAM, and lots of disk space.
Compilation involves building SBCL and classpath first, so make sure to install all required dependencies first. Debian users can run

Technically it is a precompiler, and to avoid unpleasant surprises at run time, you might want to run

./bin/precompile foo.jar

before starting anything non-trivial.

Finally, read cloak/TODO and start hacking.

What's new? Compared to the big binary tarball available previously, this one comes with sources only, has been updated for current SBCL, and for Classpath 0.91 (which is still ancient, but a little step forward). The scripts in bin/ are also new.